Quotes About Order

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.

Formal art is essentially rational.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

Ellen ran their home precisely the way

L'année suivante, quand l'acheteuse avait commandé une centaine

Cuando el Estado no logra prácticamente ninguna centralización política, la sociedad, tarde o temprano, llega al caos

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, many parts of the world, especially in Africa, lacked a state that could provide even a minimal degree of law and order, which is a prerequisite for having a modern economy.

Infighting and instability are thus inherent features of extractive institutions, and they not only create further inefficiencies but also often reverse any political centralization, sometimes even leading to the total breakdown of law and order and descent into chaos, as the Maya city-states experienced following their relative success during their Classical Era. Though

Everyone in the Hall knows what's really happening, but as long as it looks as if everything is in order, nobody will object.

What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.

You don't know what it's like to be a man over thirty who's never had anything happen to him. You spend so many years trying to stay safe, stay alive, to avoid some unknown horror. Then you realize the horror is existence itself. The nothing-happening. —You were bored. —I wasn't bored. I was dying. I am dying. But this week was different. There was alignment and order and a coming-to. —

The world is undergoing a movement toward authoritarianism, Delaney, and this is about order. People think the world is out of control. They want someone to stop the changes. This aligns perfectly with what the Every is doing: feeding the urge to control, to reduce nuance, to categorize, and to assign numbers to anything inherently complex. To simplify. To tell us how it will be. An authoritarian promises these things, too.